Comments on: Jimmy Rollins has been on fire for the past month http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/06/26/jimmy-rollins-has-been-on-fire-for-the-past-month/ Baseball. Baseball. And then a bit more baseball. Mon, 20 May 2013 01:48:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Joe http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/06/26/jimmy-rollins-has-been-on-fire-for-the-past-month/comment-page-1/#comment-320450 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 17:55:51 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=173505#comment-320450 Not that you’d know it from the chorus of Rollins-bashers over at the philly news site. The guy’s got more derogatory nicknames than I can remember: J-Stroll, Jimmy Poppins, J-Pop, Joggin’ Jimmy, Jim-Me, etc., etc. The guy could hit for the cycle with eight RBIs and four runs scored and all you’d hear about from these people is the one at-bat where he failed to sprint full-speed to first base on a routine ground-out.

]]> By: pharmerbrown http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/06/26/jimmy-rollins-has-been-on-fire-for-the-past-month/comment-page-1/#comment-320310 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 14:59:46 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=173505#comment-320310 Sheesh. Baseball players and their family priorities are destroying my fantasy squad and faith in humanity in general! How dare they let their play suffer when they have a kid, or miss a game because their wie is delivering a baby…

]]> By: hisgirlgotburrelled http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/06/26/jimmy-rollins-has-been-on-fire-for-the-past-month/comment-page-1/#comment-320289 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 14:46:51 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=173505#comment-320289 Had i known you were writing this i wouldn’t have looked up and posted his stats since his wife had a baby in this morning’s ATH…

hisgirlgotburrelled – Jun 26, 2012 at 9:21 AM
In the first 42 games before taking his 3-days for paternity leave, Jimmy Rollins was batting .229/.295/.283 with 1 HR and 7 RBI. Since then, in 31 games .316/.345/.581 with 7 HR’s and 19 RBI.

]]> By: ame123 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/06/26/jimmy-rollins-has-been-on-fire-for-the-past-month/comment-page-1/#comment-320277 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 14:39:04 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=173505#comment-320277 He had a baby right around the time of the turnaround. Perhaps his attention and focus were preoccupied with that.

]]> By: heyblueyoustink http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/06/26/jimmy-rollins-has-been-on-fire-for-the-past-month/comment-page-1/#comment-320274 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 14:37:33 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=173505#comment-320274 Aaron, how dare you use valuable blog space to write a positive Phillies article when you could’ve wrote a sonnet about Bryce Harper.

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